In Partner Center & Marketplace, a core part of Microsoft’s Commerce + Ecosystems division, the job is looking to solve the problem of delivering foundational data processing services that enable partners to thrive as they build, publish, sell, and grow with Microsoft and help customers discover and deploy first and third-party solutions. The Rewards Core Platform team will engineer and operate real-time data solutions that enable accurate, timely, and secure incentive payouts for Microsoft Partners, focusing on optimizing large-scale data pipelines and delivering trusted insights that support partner success and drive operational excellence across the ecosystem.
Requirements
- Industry experience with applying AI-assisted coding tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot) and large language models (LLMs) such as GPT or Claude Sonnet.
- 2+ years experience designing and building data pipelines using Spark-based technologies (e.g., Synapse, Databricks, or similar), with good understanding of SQL fundamentals.
- 2+ years experience maintaining and operating data processing services in a production environment.
- 3+ years experience with Delta Lake (batch or streaming), including schema evolution, partitioning, and performance optimization.
- Familiarity with event streaming platforms (e.g., Event Hubs, Kafka) and real-time processing systems.
Responsibilities
- Creates and implements code for a product, service, or feature, reusing code as applicable.
- Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) working on-call to monitor system/product feature/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions and gains approval to restore system/product/service for simple problems.
- Remains current in skills by investing time and effort into staying abreast of current developments that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.
- Leverage GitHub Copilot, and the latest Generative AI models as you work across APIs, big data, services, and user experiences that operate on a global scale.
- Engineer and operate real-time data solutions that enable accurate, timely, and secure incentive payouts for Microsoft Partners.
- Focus on optimizing large-scale data pipelines and delivering trusted insights that support partner success and drive operational excellence across the ecosystem.
Other
- Works with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of features.
- Contributes to the identification of dependencies, and the development of design documents for a product area with little oversight.
- Contributes to efforts to break down larger work items into smaller work items and provides estimation.
- Embody our culture and values
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.
